Related: US House approves Uighur Act calling for sanctions on China's senior officials. The vote was almost unanimous at 407-1. It has already passed the Senate but will go back for another vote since the bill was changed in the House.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/178 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/04/us-house-approves-uighur-act-calling-for-sanctions-on-chinas-politburo-xinjiang-muslim On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:06 PM Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately paywalled. -- YC > > ***** > > China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said its > facial-recognition efforts are aimed at minimizing telephone fraud and > preventing the reselling and illegal transfer of mobile phone cards. But > the requirement raises new privacy concerns, The Wall Street Journal’s > Liza Lin and Shan Li report > <https://cio.cmail19.com/t/d-l-xhyhtkl-ykkiutddtj-o/>. > > *True.* China is home to some of the world’s most prominent facial > recognition startups, and citizens can make payments, board planes and > enter office buildings with a quick scan of the face. > > *Also true*. The new regulation gives the Chinese state the ability to > better track people based on ethnicity and other factors, Ben Cavender, > Shanghai-based managing director at China Market Research Group, tells the > WSJ. The technology's use in China has been controversial, most notably in > Xinjiang, a region in the country’s northwest where authorities have used > the technology to surveil its Uighur Muslim minority. > > *More companies in the U.K. try tracking faces*. The U.K. has more > surveillance cameras per capita than any other country in the West. The > Wall Street Journal's Parmy Olson reports > <https://cio.cmail19.com/t/d-l-xhyhtkl-ykkiutddtj-b/> that businesses are > taking advantage of Britain’s general comfort with surveillance to pair > their own cameras with live facial-recognition technology. Companies are > also now using watch lists compiled by vendors that can help recognize > flagged people who set foot on company property. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major > commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you > moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, > change to digest mode, or change password by emailing > [email protected].
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